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Overview

Call Number: SC0212

Creator:
Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson, 1868-1941

Title: Ellwood Patterson Cubberley papers

Dates: 1886-1965

Physical Description:
3.25 Linear feet

Language(s): The materials are in English.

Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Green Library

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford, CA 94305-6064

Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu

Phone: (650) 725-1022

URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Administrative Information

Provenance

Custodial History

Most of the material in the Cubberley Papers were at one time part of another miscellaneous collection. In 1979 some files
from the Cubberley Library were sent to the University Archives. At that time these files were combined with those papers
in the miscellaneous collection and were made into an independent collection. The collection was partially processed and a
preliminary listing was made. This entire collection was re-processed in 1983. Many of the diplomas and awards are oversize,
and for this reason they are kept in the print collection (P205).

Information about Access

None.

Ownership & Copyright

Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives.

Panama-Pacific International Exposition: commemorative medal of bronze for distinguished service,

Date: 1915

Cubberley Anniversary Fund,

Date: 1923

Pi Gamma Mu: membership,

Date: 1926

National Education Association of the United States: Active member for life,

Date: 1933

National Education Association of the United States: Honorary life member,

Date: 1933

Letter, William G. Carr to Jesse B. Sears,

Date: 13 December 1954

re: Cubberley's membership

Columbia University: The University Medal,

Date: 1933

Indiana University: Doctor of Laws (honorary),

Date: 1934

State University of Iowa: Doctor of Laws (honorary),

Date: 1934

2 copies (dummy and original)

BIOGRAPHY

Ellwood Patterson Cubberley was born in Andrews, Indiana June 8, 1868. In 1891 Cubberley received an A.B. from Indiana University,
where he met David Starr Jordan, who was president of the university. Cubberley received an M.A. in 1902 and a Ph.D. in 1905,
both from Columbia University. On June 15, 1892 Cubberley and Helen Van Uxem, a student he had met at the University of Indiana,
were married.

Between 1891 and 1893 Cubberley served as an instructor in physical sciences at Vincennes University in Indiana. He then became
president of Vincennes and served from 1893 to 1896. While President, Cubberley brought the university out of debt and established
it as an accredited junior college.

From Vincennes Cubberley went to California as the superintendent of the San Diego City Schools. Two years later he accepted
an offer from David Starr Jordan, who had become the first president of Stanford University, for the position of assistant
professor of education. He became full professor in 1906 and became the dean of the School of Education when it was established
in 1917. He served as dean until his retirement in 1933. Cubberley is credited with strengthening the department and building
it into an influential School of Education.

Throughout his career Cubberley also did much work lecturing and writing, and served as the head of many school district surveys.
Cubberley wrote and edited many books, most notably the Riverside Textbooks in Education.

In 1934, with money they had saved and invested throughout the years, the Cubberleys created a trust fund which was used for
the building of the new School of Education. It was completed in 1938.

Cubberley died on September 14, 1941. Helen Cubberley died on January 25, 1952. The Cubberleys did not have children.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The collection contains a wide variety of material. This includes correspondence, articles, speeches, clippings, certificates,
ephemera, drawings (charts by Cubberley) and other legal and financial documents. This material reflects almost every aspect
of Cubberley's life, although the collection is clearly lacking the bulk of Cubberley's office files created while he served
as dean of the School of Education.